Institutional repositories and SHERPA Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham.

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Institutional repositories and SHERPA Stephen Pinfield University of Nottingham

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Key point The best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open-access institutional repositories.

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Report and Response Select Committee Report –Recommendation 44: …We recommend that the Research Councils and other Government funders mandate their funded researchers to deposit a copy of all their articles in their institutions repository…as a condition of their research grant… –Other recommendations: 7, 42-48, 50, 52-56, 58, 75 Government response –The Government recognises the potential benefit of institutional repositories and sees them as a significant development worthy of encouragement. –The Government has no present intention to mandate… –Ongoing activity: JISC, RCUK etc

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Key point The best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open-access institutional repositories.

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Key questions What are open-access repositories? Why institutional repositories? What should be deposited in them? Why do they improve scholarly communication? Why make deposition mandatory? Who should mandate deposition? Who should do the depositing? What would happen then? What happens now?

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OA repositories What are open-access repositories? Institutional repositories: Online archives set up and managed by research institutions to house articles published by authors at these institutions.* *Select Committee Report, para. 108, p. 56

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Content What should be deposited in them? E-prints –… a digital duplicate of an academic research paper that is made available online as a way of improving access to the paper.* –pre-prints –post-prints –book chapters –etc. Other digital objects eg. data (R.7) *EPIC and Key Perspectives Ltd report for JISC p. 2

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Key point The best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open-access institutional repositories.

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Key point The best way to achieve major improvements in scholarly communication in the short and medium term is to make it mandatory to deposit research papers in open-access institutional repositories.